HMS Warspite with Iain Ballantyne
History of the Second World War
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The History of the Warspike Name
After the Second World War British not constructing anymore battleships because that's how it goes but the warspike name would be resurrected as part of the Valiant Class submarines. I don't have any insider information about how they kicked around this name but there was a ships naming committee still is in some form which will discuss the ramifications of naming a warship after a particular person, a particular part of the country or some other historic name. There was kind of a feeling she was a lucky ship a famous ship a ship with an amazing fighting record and a capital ship so the third nuclear-powered fleet submarine an SSN as they called as well was warspikeThe first two were dreadnought
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